Author's Note: Originally, I was going to keep this story within a simple chapter, a.k.a. a oneshot. However, at the request of LunarEclipse, I have gladly written one last and final chapter pertaining to Courtney's thoughts.
I hope you like it!
Big words.
I scoff because he hardly uses them. It's as if he's never looked into a dictionary before. But of course, what more can I expect from such an uneducated Neanderthal?
Nothing; that's what. Absolutely nothing.
And yet…
Why do I feel like I'm floating on cloud nine whenever I'm around him? I mean, this is Duncan I'm talking about! He is not supposed to make me feel this way! I shouldn't like him. People as grossly diverse as us are physically incapable of romantically clicking.
The very idea of someone as dignified as myself harboring these kinds of emotions for a person like him is beyond me. I guess it's just another one of life's inexplicable mysteries that I prove unable to solve.
It hurts right now to be thinking in such a degrading manner. I'm a CIT for crying out loud! I receive nothing less than perfect straight A's at school, yet, it's somewhat of an embarrassment to finally be admitting to myself that I've fallen hard for the delinquent. He's precisely the type of guy that my parents have so feverishly warned me to stay away from.
From the moment I was born, the doctrine of my life was set in concrete stone. I was brought up into a high class, well respecting family. We didn't go off falling in love with criminals of any kind. It just wasn't done, and considered completely unacceptable. Even if a person didn't meet our standards by one hundred percent on the mark, we immediately snubbed them.
And that's exactly what I've been attempting to do with Duncan. I'm trying so hard to ignore him and show the world and even myself that I'm too good for him, and that it will never work.
Oh, yes, I've tried convincing myself and many others that we were simply not meant to be.
But no matter how many times I find myself plummeting into that same old routine of denial, I know that giving my heart away to him is inevitable.
In fact, I believe it's far too late. I've gotten in way deep. He already has my heart.
And now I realize that no amount of big words I use against Duncan will ever make me stop loving him.
